The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs ..., Volumes 1-2C. Knight, 1833 |
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Pagina 6
... latter writer must have painted Dante such as he was in his exile , when the bitter cup of sorrow had changed the gravity of his temper into austerity . He spoke seldom , but displayed a remarkable subtleness in his answers . The ...
... latter writer must have painted Dante such as he was in his exile , when the bitter cup of sorrow had changed the gravity of his temper into austerity . He spoke seldom , but displayed a remarkable subtleness in his answers . The ...
Pagina 11
... latter plan seems here the more advisable . To many readers a minute analysis of Davy's physical researches would be unintelligible , without full explanations of the very instruments and objects with , and upon which , he worked . We ...
... latter plan seems here the more advisable . To many readers a minute analysis of Davy's physical researches would be unintelligible , without full explanations of the very instruments and objects with , and upon which , he worked . We ...
Pagina 14
... latter year , before the Royal Society , which received from the French Institute the prize of 3000 francs , established by the First Consul , for the best experiment in electricity or galvanism . In it he investigated the nature of ...
... latter year , before the Royal Society , which received from the French Institute the prize of 3000 francs , established by the First Consul , for the best experiment in electricity or galvanism . In it he investigated the nature of ...
Pagina 15
... latter to be an undecompounded substance , in direct opposition to his own opinion , recorded at an earlier period . This discovery is the more honourable , for nothing renders the admission of truth so difficult , as having ad- vocated ...
... latter to be an undecompounded substance , in direct opposition to his own opinion , recorded at an earlier period . This discovery is the more honourable , for nothing renders the admission of truth so difficult , as having ad- vocated ...
Pagina 22
... latter occasion , he defended for six hours , with only four thousand men , against fifteen thousand Russians , a post which had been slightly fortified in twenty- four hours , and at last retired with inconsiderable loss . But the ...
... latter occasion , he defended for six hours , with only four thousand men , against fifteen thousand Russians , a post which had been slightly fortified in twenty- four hours , and at last retired with inconsiderable loss . But the ...
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Pagina 45 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Pagina 104 - For God's sake learn Italian as fast as you can, if it be only to read Ariosto. There is more good poetry in Italian than in all other languages that I understand put together.
Pagina 51 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Pagina 135 - ... equal to the elegance of his taste, and to the purity and vigour of his style, his history might be placed on a level with the most admired compositions of the ancients. But, instead of rejecting the improbable tales of chronicle writers, he was at the utmost pains to adorn them ; and hath clothed, with all the beauties and graces of fiction, those legends, which formerly had only its wildness and extravagance.
Pagina 105 - I have, or think I have, totally subdued that passion. I have still as much vanity as ever, which is a happier passion by far, because great reputation, I think, I may acquire and keep ; great situations I never can acquire, nor, if acquired, keep, without making sacrifices that I will never make.
Pagina 110 - In private life he was gentle, modest, placable, kind, of simple manners, and so averse from parade and dogmatism, as to be not only unostentatious, but even somewhat inactive in conversation. His superiority was never felt but in the instruction which he imparted, or in the attention which his generous preference usually directed to the more obscure members of the company. The simplicity of his manners was far from excluding that perfect urbanity...
Pagina 60 - This will be the fame of Watt with future generations : and it is sufficient for his race and his country. But to those to whom he more immediately belonged, who...
Pagina 84 - Newton about some difficulties he had met with. Newton communicated to him a treatise De Motu Corporum, which afterwards, with some additions, formed the first two books of the Principia. Even then Halley found it difficult to persuade him to communicate the treatise to the Royal Society, but he finally did so in April, 1686, with a desire that it should not immediately be published, as there were yet many things to complete. Hooke, whose unwearied ingenuity had guessed at the true law of gravity,...
Pagina 51 - A slighter pamphlet on the same subject, ' Brief Notes' upon a sermon by one Dr. Griffiths, must be supposed to be written rather with a religious purpose of correcting a false application of sacred texts, than with any great expectation of benefiting his party. Dr. Johnson, with unseemly violence, says, that he kicked when he could strike no longer : more justly it might be said that he held up a solitary hand of protestation on behalf of that cause now in its expiring struggles, which he had maintained...
Pagina 112 - The measures which he supported or opposed may divide the opinion of posterity, as they have divided those of the present age. But he will most certainly command the unanimous reverence of future generations, by his pure sentiments towards the commonwealth, by his zeal- for the civil and religious rights of all men, by his liberal principles, favourable to mild government, to the unfettered exercise of the human faculties, and the progressive civilization of mankind; by his ardent love for a country...